Hello everybody!!
I'm kinda desperate cause I've just realized I don't know what to read!!!! So write here if you have any book to advise, thank you!
What should I read if I had nothing to read?
Hello everybody!!
I'm kinda desperate cause I've just realized I don't know what to read!!!! So write here if you have any book to advise, thank you!
do you realise that you r now gonna b swaped with suggestion??? for my part i recommend 1984
That's shocking... I just counted how many books I have in my to-read pile... 94 books...
What are you looking for exactly?
1984 it's a BIBLE, I mean who didn't read it??
About the enormous amount of answers, that's the point!!! I want a waterfall of ideas (is it right to say waterfall??? im afraid I'm making a lot of grammar-spelling-everything errors!! aaah! please forgive me, I'm not English!!).
To answer Etienne all I want is opinions, every kind of book you like (or dislike and inspires you an irresistible desire to kill the writer)...wow 94 book! I had my own usual 10-15 pile, but I'm reading the last now...so sad.....
thanx thanx thanx evrybody from a poor italian geek!!!
Im sorry I'm bloody stupid!!!!! I meant IrishMark!!!Originally Posted by s.santa
Just walk into a book store or library and pick something at random.
There is no darkness, there is no light, there is only Lasagne!
Hi, s. santa, welcome to the forum
I have a few ideas, but I will list authors:
Hermann Hesse
Marcel Proust
D.H.Lawrence
Virginia Woolf
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Jean-Paul Sartre
Boris Vian
I think you will like at least one of them
Currently reading:
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
bartleby by herman melville have u read it?
Here are some suggestions of books that I've enjoyed:
Oryx & Crake - Margaret Atwood
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer
Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë
Bright young things - Scarlett Thomas
Sweet, I thought no one beside me knew him on this forum. Are you French or do you read it in french? If you read it in english, I'd like some feedback on it as it would, no doubt be streange in english since he uses lots of word plays and creates new words. Anyways L'écume des jours is usually in the high school book corpus here in Quebec and everyone loves this book, he's very well known in Quebec.
Oh dear I have never had that problem my pile of to reads seems to grow all on its own
You could try anything by E M Forster or anything by Geroge Orwell. You can not go past a classic
Here's my list. Not gonna put authors names cos I'm too tired.
The Middle Parts of Fortune (a must-read if you like WW1)
1984
Animal Farm
The Radetzky March (a must-read if you're into WW1)
Brave New World
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Notes From Underground
A Sportman's Notebook
Dead Souls
100 Years of Solitude
Pnin (haven't read it through yet, but I really liked it)
The Maltese Falcon
Gogol - Short Stories
Darkness at Noon
If This is a Man/The Truce
Stalingrad (a must-read if you're into WW2)
Quartered Safe Out Here (a must-read if you're into WW2)
Any book from Richard van Emden (WW1)
Catch-22
Dead Souls
Books I haven't read but I know they're great;
The Brothers Karamazov
Crime & Punishment
The Double & The Gambler
War & Peace
Anna Karenina
Master & Margerita
Pale Fire
...and many others.
If you haven't read it yet, read Don Quixote. If you have to read only one book in your life (but this shouldn't happen, or beware of yourself) it should be this one. It's genius from Idle to Farewell.
The Bible--at least once
Gone with the Wind--soap opera done right
Red Harvest--Dashiell Hammett--excellent example of the har-boiled detective story
Who Killed Roger Aceroyd--Agatha Chrisitie--murder mystery
Edgar Allan Poe--almost anything by him
Lord of the Rings--best fnatasy epic
Tarzan of the Apes--Edgar Rice Burroughs--best jungle adventure
Ivory Child--Lost race novel by Rider Haggard
David Copperfiled--best all around character book by Charles Dickens--Great Expectations a close second
The Old Man and the Sea--Hemingway--if you must
The Screwtape Letters - C.S. Lewis--insightful look in the methods of evil and temptation--and their remedies
Captain Blood--Rafael Sabatini--best pirate novel ever (because I say so--this is a hobby horse book of mine)
Any Quiller novel--spy stories by Adam Hall
Any Matt Helm novel--again with spies--Donald Hamilton
The Shadow--ANY 1938 novel -- there were 24 of them and not a loser in the year
Matthew Henry--best Bible commentator for the common man
Just saying--don't really know your likes dislikes
-- not even sure I want a reader clone of me wandering around--
but hope this helps
I recommend John Steinbecks Cannery Row, a compilation of short stories that was made into the movie by the same name. Its a shorter book. It would get you started, and you can find your way from there. Or try a collection of your favorite style/genre of stories. Many times when I draw a blank I go to collections with multiple authors, and then read something from those that I like. Not knowing your age, I think again that Watership Down by Richard Adams is a great story for young and old. Suspenseful story about a group of rabbits on the run that is simply wonderful to read.
Last edited by B-Mental; 11-15-2007 at 02:06 AM.
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Hi, I've got http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0375411259 and I've only read The Maltese Falcon, which I enjoyed alot. How are the two others compared to the first?
Also, have you read this http://www.amazon.com/Curse-Selected...5130130&sr=1-2 ? Would like to know your opinion if you have.
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